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Ezra Pound has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilĂ une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…
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This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It…
— Leslie Groves
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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things…
— Ernest Hemingway
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
— Peter Lynch
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Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think,…
— Ernesto Zedillo
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For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice…
— Dalai Lama
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The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain,…
— Dalai Lama
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There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis…
— Donald Shoup
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
— Ezra Pound
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Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always…
— Pierre Schaeffer
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